Bela Fleck and the Flecktones Live at Park West on 1995-08-16 https://archive.org/details/bfft1995-08-16.Pfeil
07.03.2026 21:24 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Bela Fleck and the Flecktones Live at Park West on 1995-08-16 https://archive.org/details/bfft1995-08-16.Pfeil
07.03.2026 21:24 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Not a new source, but a great duo show from Bela Fleck & Bruce Hornsby.
Full set on our site: archivesincowtown.org/showinfo.php...
Bela Fleck's My Bluegrass Heart will be part of the Earl Scruggs Music Festival out in North Carolina this Labor Day weekend.
This is now the 5th 2026 date for My Bluegrass Heart, 3 of which are collaborations with Renee Fleming billed as The Fiddle and the Drum.
www.earlscruggsmusicfest.com
[2/2] The Flecktones played 16 shows, 2 a night over 10-nights. Playing almost every song from their first 3 albums plus a few surprises, like the jazz standard All the Things You Are, & an unreleased Amberjack - a tune that was shelved quickly. Bela reused the title for a diff song in the 2000s tho
04.03.2026 14:32 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
[1/2] Just received a setlist dump that covers the Flecktones 1992 tour of Japan!
This was (at least) Bela's 3rd time touring Japan and the first for the Flecktones. Bela also toured Japan in 1981 with Spectrum and in 1984 with NGR.
Head over and check it out: archivesincowtown.org/yearspec.php...
Another 30 yr old Flecktones show surfaced today. A lot of trio-era tunes w/Paul McCandless guesting.
Check out the super rare "F# Tune": only ~20 plays, never released
Also unreleased, "D 6/8": played 3 times as much & even closed a few shows
So...is the Live Art era the greatest Flecktones era?
Confirmation of another My Bluegrass Heart show. Looks like the rumors of a tour later this year might be true. This is also the first 2026 My BG Heart date we’ve seen without Renee Fleming.
25.02.2026 08:13 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
This is the 3rd date for the Béla Fleck/Reneé Flemming collaboration. Could we see a full tour over the summer...?
This will be (at least) the 26th different project Fleck has brought to Telluride over the last 44 years, not including the numerous house band/all-star jams he's taken part in.
“A Show of Hands” Turns 30: Victor Wooten Celebrates With Limited-Edition Yin-Yang Bass Statue
Thirty years ago, "A Show of Hands" changed the bass world. Now Victor Wooten is celebrating with a limited-edition Yin-Yang bass statue. Only 75 available. www.notreble.com/buzz/2026/02...
17.02.2026 14:30 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Perfect. Thanks!
16.02.2026 23:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Awesome! We caught a few shows as well, a jolly great time all around!
Any chance you recall if they played "I Want A Hippopotamus For Christmas" in Boston?
We have sets for most of those shows, but Boston was one that still has some questions: archivesincowtown.org/showinfo.php...
Apparently Bela Fleck & the Flecktones opened for Pat Benatar in 1991 at Universal Amp in LA.
Add Benatar to the list of legends the Flecktones supported in their first few years alongside Bonnie Raitt, Chicago, The Band, Grateful Dead, Take 6, Kenny Loggins, Crosby & Nash, Dr. John, Phish, + more.
« Bounce, Part1 » performed by Nate Smith, featuring Cory Wong & Victor Wooten, Live!
Enjoy, have a nice day everyone!
youtube.com/watch?v=Y8_3...
![Bela Fleck & the Flecktones (with guest Branford Marsalis) - Jay Leno [1992]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:yoivyjsv72g3gvr7vbw2242v/bafkreicaiuhh2jxrzpsacttu4djjqah2cb3b5vpisbhpag5zvhjelrwluy)
Today we shared Bela Fleck & the Flecktones appearance on Jay Leno from back in 1992. They actually played 2 songs on the show and Bela even got a small interview in between.
Set:
1. Life Without Elvis
2. Sex in a Pan featuring Branford Marsalis
Enjoy!
A cosmic hippo cameo in the latest comic from @cgricks.bsky.social
10.02.2026 22:34 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Excellent! Admittedly we aren't as familiar with that tune since I think this is the first live recording we have of it, but we should have thought to check it against that that album.
Thanks for the assist (and the follow)!
Here's info on the other date with Bela Fleck & Renee Fleming on May 23rd in Charleston, SC.
This celebration of Appalachian folk music is titled The Fiddle and the Drum.
We'll see if they add more dates with this lineup or if it's just a one-off event.
spoletousa.org/events/renee...
Not sure yet. We’ll update once we get more info.
06.02.2026 00:44 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Should be an interesting evening. Bela Fleck's My Bluegrass Heart band will return for this project.
This is not the first collaboration with Fleck & Fleming, they performed together in March of 2022 alongside Abigail Washburn and others at a COAL+ICE Exhibit in New York.
PS thanks KCBanjonut for a fantastic piece of Fleck history.
That's a 20-yr-old, mustachioed Bela Fleck with Jack Tottle, Pat Enright, and Mark Schatz.
Schatz played with Bela in many incarnations after Tasty Licks and Pat Enright was part of the Dreadful Snakes w/Bela. This and more on our site.
Also with our most recent updates is a setlist from the only Tasty Licks recording we have found. A short set from the Redgate BG Festival back in 1979!
Check it out on YouTube and let us know if you recognize the 3rd song (instrumental) as we can't quite place it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0Gy...
List of Bela Fleck touring acts including the Flecktones, New Grass Revival, Tasty Licks, and duo tours alongside Abigail Washburn, Edgar Meyer, and Chris Thile, plus many more. Current show count over Bela's 50 year touring history: 4791!
Digging deep into Bela Fleck history. Recent additions: 130+ shows from his 1st post-high school band, Boston-based Tasty Licks, and 35+ shows from his time in Spectrum, a KY-based bluegrass band.
Now over 4,700 Fleck shows and counting!
Check it all out here: archivesincowtown.org/guestinfo.ph...
It's Grammy weekend! Good luck to Béla & the BEATrio!
Looking for a weekend soundtrack? Check out our Spotify playlist with all of Béla's Grammy nominated songs: open.spotify.com/playlist/2v4...
Or, if you're up for a challenge, try our Sporcle quiz first: www.sporcle.com/games/Archiv...
DMBs new live release includes a 16 minute version of #41 with the Flecktones and several Bela Fleck guest spots, most notably the 3 songs he appeared on from DMBs 1998 album Before These Crowded Streets which was played in full for the first time ever at this show.
30.01.2026 01:32 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Fantastic show! These guys had just wrapped up recording Béla's album Drive about a month prior.
Easily some of the best in the business.
You can find the setlist for both this show and night 2 here:
archivesincowtown.org/showinfo.php...
Bela Fleck and the Flecktones Live at Riverfront Amphitheater on 1995-07-21 https://archive.org/details/bfft1995-07-21.Pfeil
28.01.2026 16:17 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Bela Fleck and The Flecktones - Stomping Grounds 1996 (en vivo) 🙌
youtu.be/UoLXtj0aCiM?...
Béla Fleck and BEATrio are up for a Grammy this year for Best Contemporary Instrumental Album!
This marks Béla's 46th nomination overall, across 21 different categories.
This is also the 12th nomination for BEATrio drummer Antonio Sánchez and the first for harpist Edmar Castañeda.
The BEATrio is headed back out to tour Europe this February before returning to the States for a short run in April.
If you get a chance to catch these guys (Béla Fleck, Edmar Castañeda, and Antonio Sanchez), don't miss it!
Check here for dates: archivesincowtown.org/yearspec.php...
Two amazing bands, Telluride in the 80's was something else.
NGR was scheduled in '87, but Cowan fell ill so they got Edgar Meyer to fill in among other guests.
archivesincowtown.org/showinfo.php...